專

See also: 专, 専, and 尃

Translingual

shinjitai	専
simplified	专
traditional	專

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 叀 + semantic 寸

Han character

專 (radical 41 寸+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十戈木戈 (JIDI), four-corner 5034₃)

1. monopolize, take sole possession

Descendants

• 専 专

Derived characters

• 傳, 轉, 磚, 團, 摶, 膞, 蓴, 篿, 竱, 漙, 鱄, 嫥, 縳

References

• KangXi: page 295, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7439
• Dae Jaweon: page 584, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 507, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5C08

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Chinese

		-
trad.		專
simp.		专

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuān (zhuan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyun¹
• Min Nan (POJ): chuan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: chuan¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juan
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯a̠n⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyun¹
    • Yale: jyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzyn¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕyːn⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chuan
    • Tâi-lô: tsuan
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡suan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡suan³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (專, reconstructed)
Character (專), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 章 (23) Final: 仙 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 職緣切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡ɕiuᴇn/	/t͡ɕi̯wɛn/	/t͡ɕiuɛn/	/t͡ɕʷiɛn/	/cwian/	/t͡ɕĭwɛn/	/t͡ɕjuæn/

Old Chinese pronunciation (專, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
專								zhuān								‹ tsywen ›								/*ton/								exclusively
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
專					17683					專					元					3					專					/*tjon/

Definitions

專

1. expert

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

專

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 専)

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Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: もっぱら (moppara)

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Korean

Hanja

專 (jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

專 (chuyên, choèn, chuyến)

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